So I'm checking out flutes. We've been to flute world in Michigan (um ok, but not what I thought.)

I've a budget which in Canuck bucks and Yankee currency is about the same $800 to $1300.

I've one I'm leaning towards, it's a Yamaha, sorry don't remember the model but it's 900 with taxes in.

I can pick one up in Toronto at Long and McQuade on our way up north on Wednesday, they have some different makes, and I have spent some bucks there and get treated well.

Now, she wants a C foot. Or a B foot. I know at one point we were going to get an Alto flute, but she does not want to learn a new instrument and she spent 20 minutes trying to get a sound from one in MI that was worth about 2400 bucks, to no avail.

We have an Alto recorder.

Open hole? We do at least 50 percent Celtic stuff anyway.

Can you punch out the keys. Most of them look like they were made for open or closed or is it just so your fingers fit in a depression?

We have 3 Artley flutes, 2 low end student models and one better one, but none of them are really anything but a learner's flute.

Thanks in advance!

John Conley
Musica est vita